The Day Ahead: Cabletron's IPO kids are all right
News Investors cheered as they began dreaming of spinoffs and initial public offerings. Of course, you may not want shares of all four spinoffs, but Cabletron, which also holds shares of Efficient Networks could have at least one IPO home run.
[June 29, 2000, 12:16]
Microsoft to spin off Expedia in IPO
News Are we going to do spinoffs in other marketplaces? Chase noted, however, that spinoffs were but one option the company would deploy. Microsoft announced Thursday that it would spin off its online travel service site Expedia in an initial public...
[September 24, 1999, 8:49]
Expedia embarks on Nasdaq
News Are we going to do spinoffs in other marketplaces? Chase noted, however, that spinoffs were but one option the company would deploy. Expedia, the online travel agency formerly launched by Microsoft, Wednesday announced the initial public offering...
[November 10, 1999, 16:34]
AT&T eager to exchange control for capital
News Over the next two years, AT&T plans to sell shares in standalone spinoffs or tracking stocks for AT&T Consumer, AT&T Broadband and AT&T Wireless, three of the company's units. Although analysts question the rationale behind AT&T's sales and...
[December 13, 2000, 11:59]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com homecomings
News Now these spinoffs don't look so hot. As we exited 1999, dozens of old economy companies, including Toys R Us and the New York Times, were plotting dot-com spinoffs. If 1999 was the year of the dot-com spinoff, the next year or so may be the year...
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
Palmisano sheds light on IBM's path
News To right the situation, some financial analysts believe IBM could shed between 8,000 to 20,000 people in 2002, coming from a combination of natural attrition, layoffs and spinoffs, such as a recently announced plan to spin off of its hard drive...
[May 17, 2002, 7:32]
Intel winding down Xircom subsidiary
News Many of the acquisitions, and subsequent closures and spinoffs, came out of Intel's Communications Group. Intel is winding down its Xircom networking subsidiary, part of the chipmaker's strategy to concentrate on its basic markets.
[February 3, 2003, 8:04]
Guerilla tactics will defeat music industry
News Gnutella has also inspired a number of spinoffs including Gnutmeg and iMesh. Gagging Napster may be the easiest task the RIAA has to face in the war to secure royalties for musicians. That and closing down other file-sharing services with a central...
[July 27, 2000, 12:40]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News Fri, 25th Aug 2000 Those dot-com spinoffs look like coming back to their parents after mixed success at attempts to prove their independence It's been a long, hot summer for dot-coms in the US and Europe alike.
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
3Com lays off 1,200
News Com had announced plans to spin off its high-end carrier equipment business in December, and recently completed the spinoffs of its Palm and US Robotics businesses. 3Com will eliminate 1,200 jobs as part of a cost-cutting move, the company said...
[February 27, 2001, 7:21]
AMD renews cheap chip attack
News But since last autumn's launch of Athlon, the successor to the K6 line, AMD has been focusing on taking over market share in the mainstream PC market and preparing Athlon spinoffs for the mobile, value and performance markets.
[May 22, 2000, 15:03]
Opera fast-forwards new browser
News By contrast, some other browser makers, including Apple and some spinoffs of the Mozilla open-source browser project, are focusing on making stripped-down browsers with the minimum of features. Opera Software has put its browser development into...
[April 11, 2003, 15:12]
Renamed Philips Semi wins US passport contract
News Spinoffs have been the rage in the semiconductor world, but NXP is the first not to pick a name that sounds like a restaurant at a beach resort. Philips Semiconductor is now NXP, and one of its first notable deals is a contract to supply chips for...
[September 1, 2006, 9:25]
Nasa's fresh hopes for moon mission
News Nasa also takes pains to point out its economic influences — jobs, spinoffs and money infused in the country's industrial base. Forty years after the first humans walked on the moon, Nasa is trying again to reach the Earth's nearest celestial...
[July 22, 2009, 12:00]
